 | 1855 - 846 páginas
...inferior may occupy an immensely larger portion of Time than the superior. Why not, then, of Space ? "The earth was brute and inert, compared •with its present condition ; dark and chaotic, so for as the light of reason and intelligence are concerned, for countless centuries before man was created.... | |
 | William Whewell - 1854 - 318 páginas
...inferior may occupy an immensely larger portion of time than the superior ; why not then of space ? The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...compass of a few miles, in the expanse of systems 1 The earth was brute and inert, compared with its present condition, dark and chaotic, so far as the... | |
 | 1854 - 604 páginas
...inferior may occupy an immensely larger portion of time than the superior ; why not, then of space ? The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...course of myriads of ages ; why not, then, into the cnmpass of a few miles in the expanse of systems ? .... If the earth was for ages a turbid abyss of... | |
 | David Brewster - 1854 - 334 páginas
...other planets be occupied at present with a life no higher than this, OR WITH NO LIFE AT ALL ? . . . . The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...few years in the course of myriads of ages ; why, then, not into the compass of a few miles in the expanse of systems ? .... If then the Earth be the... | |
 | 1854 - 632 páginas
...creation is thrust into the compass of af etc years in the course of myriads of ages ; why then not into the compass of a few miles in the expanse of systems?" — P. 103. The argument meant to be conveyed in these tautological assertions we hold to be utterly... | |
 | Robert Anchor Thompson - 1855 - 522 páginas
...other planets may be occupied at present with a life no higher than this, or with no life at all." " The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...the compass of a few miles in the expanse of systems ?" " If the earth was for ages a turbid mass of lava and of mud, why may not Mars or Saturn be so still?"... | |
 | 1855 - 548 páginas
...the elapsed organic antiquity during which the earth has existed, and been the abode of life. * * * The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...few years in the course of myriads of ages ; why, then, not into the compass of a few miles in the expanse of systems? * * * Ift then, the earth be the... | |
 | 1855 - 408 páginas
...succession of unintelligent creatures that preceded it. In energetic language, he has reminded us how ' the intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...compass of a few years in the course of myriads of ages ; ' how ' the earth was brute and inert compared with its present condition, dark and chaotic, so far... | |
 | 1855 - 802 páginas
...lain desolate for immense ages ; — " the intelligent part of the creation," argues the essayist, " is thrust into the compass of a few years, in the course of myriads of ages ; why then not the compass of a few miles in the expanse of the system." We admit with the reviewer in his... | |
 | Robert Anchor Thompson - 1863 - 922 páginas
...other planets may be occupied at present with a life no higher than this, or with no life at all." " The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the...the compass of a few miles in the expanse of systems ?" " If the earth was for ages a turbid mass of lava and of mud, why may not Mars or Saturn be so still?"... | |
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The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the compass of a few years, in the course of myriads of ages ; why not then into the compass of a few miles, in the expanse of systems... 
